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After installing stand-alone flash games like Machinarium, Dino Run SE, and Space Rubbish (all of which are good games by the way) I find that my game saves keep disappearing.

I have read how cleaning programs like CCleaner can have this effect. I have CCleaner installed, but do not have it run automatically. I have found that whenever start and then quit IE 8, my saves disappear. I also run Firefox 7, but it seems to have no effect.

My question is: how can i stop IE from deleting these local Flash caches?

As a side note i wonder if any other browser does this by default.

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possible duplicate of Machinarium save games – ChrisF Oct 12 '11 at 20:45

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Make sure you allow flash to save data to your hard drive.

Right click the flash game and select Setting (or Global settings). Under the "Storage" tab, make sure "Allow sites to save information on this computer" is checked.

Adobe also has a page you can use to set flash settings: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager03.html

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These are stand-alone flash games, i don't play them in my browser. – RedRiderX Oct 12 '11 at 11:56
@RedriderX It doesn't matter. All Flash files use those global settings. You may need to run the game in your browser to set the domain specific settings though. – CyberSkull Oct 12 '11 at 13:46
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Flash saves its data to: %APPDATA%\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects Does this folder get cleared after you exit IE? – CheeseSucker Oct 12 '11 at 13:53
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Make sure "Delete browsing history on exit" is not checked in IE. – CheeseSucker Oct 12 '11 at 13:58
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BTW you can keep the storage policy as is (ask / block all), but specifically allow it for certain sites. For local games, the "site" is local. – Alois Mahdal Feb 3 at 0:41
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Have you got IE set to "Delete browsing history on exit" and, in the Delete options, got the "Cookies" option selected?

This will delete the game saves if they are stored in cookies.

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Flash stores it's own cookies and data separate from any browser's data. – CyberSkull Oct 12 '11 at 11:07
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Asked this a while ago here.

Basically if you have any sort of tool installed to clean up your browser temp files on exit, then you'll blow away your save games. @CheeseSucker's comments are valid. I have the issue while running BetterPrivacy in FF.

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man go to this link http://www.ehow.com/how_7298811_transfer-flash-game-saves.html this explains how to get your save games on pc and you can even clean the history with this trick hope that helps u!! :D

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Maybe you can copy the info here? If the link become unavailable, then we would still have a copy. – Jupotter Mar 17 '12 at 22:04

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